FT Alphaville has been tracking the gig economy’s transformation into a neo-feudalism movement for a while now. What we’ve discovered is that those who use, love and defend the apps don’t always have a good understanding of what really contributes to their convenience. Many will do and say almost anything to protect them, whilst failing to grasp the key point of the criticism: none of this is necessarily sustainable or representative of a productivity efficiency.

(Should I [personally] care about this? I’ve been freelance since 1979, but the world I got established in is a totally different one from today’s. I may have made only a few hundred dollars a month when I was starting out, but if rent was $100 I was laughing.)